Objective 5.01

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Objective 5.01

• Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid
  industrialization on urban life.

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Essential Questions

• How did immigration and industrialization shape
  urban life?
• How did the rapid industrialization of the
  Gilded Age create economic, social, and political
  change in the U.S.?
• Did immigration and rapid industrialization
  have a positive or negative impact on the
  economic and social structure of the United
  States?

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Thomas Edison

• Opened a research laboratory, invented the light
  bulb among other things

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Alexander Graham Bell

• Inventor of the telephone

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Elevator

• Invented by Werner Von Siemans, contributed to
  the development of skyscrapers.

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Electric Trolley

• Developed to transport people from one part of
  New York to another.

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Typewriter

• Invented by Christopher Sholes, changed the way
  that businesses maintained records, also the name
  of the person that used the machine

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Ellis Island

• Induction center for immigrants arriving from
  Europe

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Culture Shock

• Initial reaction of the immigrants entering the
  country for the first time

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Melting Pot

• Mixing of many different cultures to form a
  culture

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Cultural Pluralism

• Many cultures together in one place with each
  maintaining their identity

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Nativism

• Favoring native born people over immigrants

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Urbanization

• Citys population continues to expand

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Dumbbell Tenements

• One room apartments for immigrants, overcrowded
  and unsanitary

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Jacob Riis

• New York police reporter, took pictures of the
  urban poor and exposed the conditions of the
  tenement houses

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Sweatshop

• Workers worked for long hours at low pay, child
  labor, poor working conditions

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Jane Addams

• Set up a settlement house in Chicago called the
  Hull House

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Settlement Houses

• Community centers set up for immigrants to
  provide food, clothing, shelter, education,
  recreation and social interaction

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Chinese Exclusion Act

• Limited immigration from China to teachers,
  merchants, business leaders, and diplomats

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Amusement Parks

• Coney Island, place where people could go to
  escape industrial life for a while, 1st hotdogs,
  entertainment, thrill rides

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Spectator Sports

• Boxing and Baseball were the most popular from
  the late 1800s to the early 1900s

Jack Johnson
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Frederick Olmstead

• Designed Central Park in New York as a getaway
  from urban life.

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QuizChoose 5 and describe their impact on the
period of Immigration and Urbanization

• Elevator
• Electric trolleys
• Telephone
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Typewriter
• New immigrants vs.Old immigrants
• Jacob Riis

• Ellis Island
• Settlement houses
• Jane Addams
• Dumbbell tenements
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Sweatshops
• Amusement parks
• Spectator sports
• Frederick Law Olmsted